Part 1. Secret memoirs of the shoguns. Before the Tokugawa --
Ieyasu, the Gongen, to Ietsugu --
Yoshimune, the eighth shogun --
Ieshige to Ienari --
Part 2. Essays on Japanese civilization. On the legal suicide of the Japanese --
On Japanese poetry --
The character of the Japanese people, and a history of East-West relations --
Part 3. Other observations. 'Secret diary' of Isaac Titsingh --
Titsingh's 'Philosophical discourse'.